WE'RE BACK! 🍞🥎🔥

Dear athletes,
We missed you very much!

After nearly three years without a Toasterball update, we’re finally back at work on its final version.

And we have great news for you:

Toasterball will officially release in the spring of 2023!

Until then, we'll try and introduce you to the new features of this version (which we've already been working on for a few months 🤫) with lil’ Devlogs like this one, as often as possible complete with (somewhat) humorous videos.

4 NEW MAPS

One of the main additions to come is that you will be able to choose between different arenas to play in.
Be aware, these won't directly influence the gameplay, but they will bring visual variety to your games, while expanding the lore of Toasterball.

Let us go through these arenas together, follow me:

🏀 Breadington Square

This mini-stadium, one of the first on the East Coast of the United States, is the birthplace of Markus Decker, an emblematic figure of the Burners. After 5 years of negotiations, during which the city had to adapt to the current code standards, the Breadington Square stadium was recently approved by the Toasterball League. Excellent news for the surrounding residents, who can now watch the official Toasterball Cup games for free, from their windows.

🌿 Panachado Forest

Located in northern Peru, in a damp, mosquito-infested jungle, this arena is nonetheless an ideal one: thanks to its 70 acres of mosquito netting and air dehumidifiers under each seat, the arena offers spectators fantastic watching conditions. Unfortunately, the Toasterball League has been the target of an ecological and ethical controversy, to which they responded that they were at least working for world peace through the organization of federative events. (to the great pleasure of the locals who are now working in the stadium's cleaning department)

🌊 Porto Rada Beach

Known primarily as a tourist destination, the city of Porto Rada also has one of the most beautiful beach in Brazil. And if, before a match, you can sometimes spot Anna Flow practicing her surfing moves on its beautiful waves, it's because Porto Rada’s beach now houses a new arena, where the next games of this regular season will take place. A heavenly setting where the fans' anthems mix with the seagulls' choirs. Watch out for sunburns though!

🏰 Tartembourg

Located in eastern France, the medieval village of Tartembourg seems frozen in time. Famous for its traditional "Tartinades", a series of bakery-related sports events, the village's stadium was naturally approved by the Toasterball League. This decision has been contested, with some voices denouncing a certain form of favoritism on the part of the League, pointing out the impassable roads (only accessible by cart) as well as the danger represented by the foul beast that, allegedly, lurks in the corridors of the castle.

TOASTERBALL ARENA REWORK

As these new arenas are more detailed, with new goals and a dedicated crowd, we decided to rework the Toasterball Arena, in order to keep an overall visual consistency.

GAMEPLAY ADJUSTMENT

Thanks to these two years of playtesting (haha... better to laugh about it, eh!), we noticed that the current goal system in most of the variants was imperfect: either the exchanges were too short and the players scored as soon as they were engaged, or the exchanges were too long because players just blocked the goal.

To solve this problem, we decided to replace this system with destructible goals. They encourage strategic thinking, precision, and they allow the points to last long enough (but you know, if you’re just too bad, we can't help you with that)

BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE!

We still have a lot of new features to share with you! Unfortunately, there won’t be an online mode, but on the other hand, we’ve added AIs to play against, and train with in solo mode. Also, we are working on a custom mode, where you can create your own matches (choosing map, rules, etc).

See you at the next devlog for more info on these!!! 🤓

THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💜

Finally, we really wanted to thank you. Despite the fact that we did not communicate much online, Toasterball has been part of our everyday life for 5 years now. And what an amazing experience it has been (and still is)! All thanks to you!

Toasterball is now far more than game for us, with tens of millions of views on Youtube, lovely comments on all the platforms, several thousands of players (including lots of polish players ❤), all the wonderful people we’ve met during conventions, the tournaments between friends, between colleagues... (oh yes, we’ve seen your brackets online!)

Thanks a lot to the people who took a chance on buying this little game of ours, helping support us in the process. By the way, if you find the time, feel free to leave a positive review on Steam, it will give us even more resources to make the best of this final release!

And for those who don't have the game yet (we're not mad, we swear), consider following the game (or us !) so you don't miss its final release!

“À très vite les p’tits potes !”
As we say in french. Maybe. Sometimes.

Les Crafteurs,
Alexandre, Simon, Joris & Théo (with the invaluable help of Margaux and Florian)

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